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AI Provider Operations & Support Engineer

OpenRouter· Engineering
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Remote$215k - $280kFull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

OpenRouter is an LLM marketplace and open AI routing/infrastructure layer enabling enterprises to access, manage, and optimize the best large language models across providers. The role focuses on owning model launches and provider onboarding, collaborating with model labs and providers to bring new models to market and streamline onboarding processes.

Responsibilities

  • Tooling for benchmarks, onboarding and internal operations (~60%) - Build internal tools to help speed up the model onboarding process - Build internal evals to quickly evaluate models and endpoints - Document internal processes and prime them for automation
  • Model Launches & Provider Partnerships (~40%) - Run end-to-end launch playbooks for various model types (text, audio, image, audio, video, embeddings, and rerankers): scoping, test plans, latency/quality checks, pricing & quotas, docs, and announcement assets - Coordinate with model providers to integrate, QA, and hit ship dates - Maintain clear versioning and release notes; manage deprecations and migrations

Qualifications

  • Experience: 2-3 years at a startup, software engineering, product ops, or similar
  • Technical Skills: Comfortable building with inference APIs, including Chat Completions, Responses, and/or Messages API; can read API docs and troubleshoot with logs/cURL/Postman; Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and/or Python
  • Mindset: Ambitious owner, fast learner, bias to ship. Passionate about AI and developer experience
  • Education: CS/Engineering degree is a plus, not required with demonstrated technical aptitude

Skills

Required:Inference API usageProgramming

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, benefits, and equity
  • Growth into specialized or senior roles as we scale
  • Collaborative, high-ownership environment
  • Front-row seat to real-world LLM adoption and access to cutting-edge models
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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A router for LLMs and other AI models

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